"Fox News Sunday" is heading to Louisville, Ky. Jack Conway, Kentucky's attorney general and the Democratic candidate for Senate , and Rand Paul, the Republican nominee and son of Representative Ron Paul, Republican of Texas, have agreed to a live debate on "Fox News Sunday" on Oct.3 at 9 a.m. (Eastern time).

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<quoted text>Because before the 2008 collapse of the US economic system, 20 Million fewer people qualified for food stamps and phones. So glad I could help you understand. 750,000 people per MONTH were losing their jobs and you Repubs keep asking what the problem is and was . Damn Dummies.

you mean the depression of 2009 - 2013? yeah, we heard about that, oblamer and bumbling joe retard said if we spend more money we will fix the problem, LOLOL, give a druggie more drugs and they will be cured,there is no possible way you could ge any dumber, its just not possible,

<quoted text>Really dweeb? Another topix forum titled "The President Fails" you or one of your shills started? Show me a story, a website, a faux box O'Reilly link showing that is a true story and not something you fabricated or seen on some topix thread. You hate in when you get outted huh? Show me and I am not from Missouri..haha or ILL.You are a weak shill lemming. Keep trying, you have me rolling on the floor tonight and I am bored. lmao @ you though

I'm a STRONG human being! What are you, WUSS?Roll on big mama/papa sheeple.

Date:Sun, 1965-02-21*On this date in 1965, Black Nationalist Malcolm X was shot and killed. This happened at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, while he was preparing to speak.He was one of the most passionate and controversial people of the 20th century. Three of the men arrested were later identified as members of the Nation of Islam.A week earlier, his home was firebombed; his wife and children escaped unharmed.http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/vie...

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You're right. MX was a Muslim for a while. He changed his mind because he learned something about them that was against his beliefs. So he wanted out. He even said, he knew his life was at stake and most likely they would try to kill him.

There are plenty of stories and first hand videos where you can hear him say all this, so no need for the cute little icons showing this statement is nuts, clueless or you disagree. Look it up!

ok heres you chance prove me wrong show me the balanced budget bill clinton did, you cant because it never happened only in your dreams

You can't take the truth no matter how many factchecks or history there is about it but I will give you an example. By all means look it up yourself if you don't like my references. Just because you and your shill crew throw out fabrications doesn't make them true. Keep in denial and glued to your faux box, has been rock star, pill head lunatic rush, beck, rove, whoever pundit shows. It doesn't change anything. Clinton, Bush, Obama blame game doesn't change reality. Keep trying though.

The Budget and Deficit Under ClintonQ: During the Clinton administration was the federal budget balanced? Was the federal deficit erased?A: Yes to both questions, whether you count Social Security or not.http://factcheck.org/2008/02/the-budget-and-d...

How the Deficit Got This Big

With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth asking how we got here  from healthy surpluses at the end of the Clinton era, and the promise of future surpluses, to nine straight years of deficits, including the $1.3 trillion shortfall in 2010. The answer is largely the Bush-era tax cuts, war spending in Iraq and Afghanistan, and recessions.

The first graph shows the difference between budget projections and budget reality. In 2001, President George W. Bush inherited a surplus, with projections by the Congressional Budget Office for ever-increasing surpluses, assuming continuation of the good economy and President Bill Clintons policies. But every year starting in 2002, the budget fell into deficit. In January 2009, just before President Obama took office, the budget office projected a $1.2 trillion deficit for 2009 and deficits in subsequent years, based on continuing Mr. Bushs policies and the effects of recession. Mr. Obamas policies in 2009 and 2010, including the stimulus package, added to the deficits in those years but are largely temporary.

The three best charts on how Clintons surpluses became Bush and Obamas deficits

Theres a reason Bill Clinton is on the stage tonight. When he was president, America enjoyed a booming economy and surpluses (here are some charts). Since he left the White House, things havent been quite as good.

But the story of why they havent been quite as good is more complicated than Clinton isnt around now. Here are three of the best analyses of whats happened to the federal budget since 2001. Ive included the key paragraph and chart from each of them.

The Pew Fiscal Analysis Initiative:Between 2001 and 2011, about two-thirds (68 percent) of the $12.7 trillion growth in federal debt has been due to new legislation. Forty percent of this legislative growth was the result of tax cuts enacted after January 2001, and 60 percent resulted from spending increases. Technical and economic revisions combined caused about one quarter (27 percent) of the growth, and changes in other means of financing accounted for 6 percent.The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:If not for the Bush tax cuts, the deficit-financed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the effects of the worst recession since the Great Depression (including the cost of policymakers actions to combat it), we would not be facing these huge deficits in the near term. By themselves, in fact, the Bush tax cuts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will account for almost half of the $20 trillion in debt that, under current policies, the nation will owe by 2019. The stimulus law and financial rescues will account for less than 10 percent of the debt at that time.

All these analyses tell the same story in one key respect, however. The primary drivers of the debt predate Barack Obama. The post-9/11 wars and security build-up, the Bush tax cuts, and the 2001 and 2008 recessions simply began before Obama became president. You can blame him for extending the Bush tax cuts till 2012, or for the stimulus (though the stimulus would never have happened without the 2008 financial crisis), but the structural of deterioration came in the Bush years.

LARGEST UNIFIED SURPLUS EVER AND THE ONLY ON-BUDGET SURPLUS SINCE MEDICARE WAS ESTABLISHED

Instead of a $455 billion deficit, the surplus this year will be at least $230 billion. In 1992, the deficit in the Federal budget was $290 billion  the largest dollar deficit in American history. In January 1993, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the deficit would grow to $455 billion by 2000. Today, the Clinton/Gore Administration is estimating that the surplus will be at least $230 billion this year - the third consecutive surplus and the largest surplus ever, even after adjusting for inflation. Compared with original projections, these results mean that there is over $685 billion less of a government drain on the economy and over $685 billion more that is available for private investment in this one year alone.

Largest unified surplus as a share of the economy since 1948. The 2000 surplus is projected to be 2.4 percent of GDP - the largest surplus as a share of the economy ("GDP") since 1948. The third consecutive year with a surplusfor the first time in over 50 years. The estimated surplus of at least $230 billion follows a surplus of $124 billion in FY 1999 and $69 billion in FY 1998. The last time America had three surpluses in a row was over fifty years ago in 1947-49. The FY2000 surplus marks the eighth consecutive year of fiscal improvement for the first time in American history - surpassing the pre-Clinton-Gore best of five straight years.

The second consecutive surplus excluding Social Security. Excluding Social Security, the surplus is projected to be $80 billion this year. This is the second consecutive surplus on this basis, for the first time since 1956-57.

The first surplus excluding Social Security and Medicare. This is the only on-budget surplus since Medicare was established in 1965.(The on-budget surplus excludes Social Security and Medicare surpluses).

LARGEST DEBT REDUCTION EVER

The Presidents plan to eliminate the debt by 2012 remains on track. President Clintons budget proposes to reduce the debt held by the public by $2.9 trillion over the next decade and to eliminate it by 2012. The Presidents debt reduction comes from saving the entire $2.3 trillion Social Security surplus, the entire $403 billion Medicare surplus, and $192 billion of the on-budget surplus for debt reduction.

Interest payments would be eliminated. Currently, we spend 12 cents of every Federal dollar on interest payment. These payments, which were once projected to grow to 25 percent of all federal spending in 2012, would be eliminated under the Presidents plan by that time.

On track to pay down more than $360 billion in debt over three years. In 1998 and 1999, the debt held by the public was reduced by $140 billion. The government paid down an additional $223 billion in debt held by the public this fiscal year alone. That will bring the total debt pay down to more than $360 billion  the largest three-year debt pay-down in American history. In contrast, under the 12 year tenure of Presidents Reagan and Bush, the debt held by the public quadrupled

The debt held by the public is on track to be $2.4 trillion lower in 2000 than was projected when the President took office. In 1993, the debt held by the public was projected by the Office of Management and Budget to balloon to $5.85 trillion by 2000. Instead, shrinking deficits, and growing surpluses in the last three years are projected to bring the debt down to $3.4 trillion in 2000 $2.4 trillion less than expected. In 1993, the debt held by the public was 50 percent of GDP and projected to rise to 65 percent of GDP in 2000. Instead, it has been slashed to a projected 35 percent of GDP under the Presidents plan and would be completely eliminated by 2012.

REDUCING SPENDING WHILE CUTTING TAXES FOR MIDDLE-INCOME FAMILIESFederal spending as a share of the economy is the lowest since 1966. Spending restraint under President Clinton has brought spending down federal spending from 22 percent of GDP in 1992 to a projected 18 percent of GDP in 2000  the lowest since 1966. At the same time, President Clinton has increased strategic investments in education, technology and other areas that are vital to growth. The smallest Federal civilian workforce in 40 years. The Federal civilian workforce increased from the time when President Reagan took office to the time when President Bush left office. In contrast, since President Clinton and Vice President Gore took office, the Federal workforce has been cut by 377,000by nearly a fifth  and is now lower than at any time since 1960. While balancing the budget, running large surpluses and paying down the debt, the Clinton-Gore Administration has provided tax relief for working families. The tax cuts signed into law by the President in 1993 and 1997  for example, the expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, the $500 child tax credit, the $1,500 HOPE Scholarship Tax Credit, and expanded IRAs have reduced taxes for American working families. The total Federal tax rate for middle-income families has dropped from 24.5 percent in 1992 to 22.8 percent in 1999  thats the lowest tax rate since 1978. For families at one-half the median income, the effective Federal tax rate has been slashed from 19.8 percent in 1992 to 14.1 percent in 1999  thats the lowest tax rate since 1968.

<quoted text>hard work and honest labor built this country, unions stole it from their children,

Who wanted a union to keep them safe, fair wages, and keep big corps and government in check from violating labor laws. Not an American in the country hasn't benefitted from Union Labor. Cheney/Rumsfield were the union busters. Didn't want those "no bid" contracts to be an issue and prevent them from making big dollars like Cheney's Halliburton. You watch too much faux box. You repukes and teabaggers have stolen it from the children. And we all have to pay. Keep trying little sheep/goat.

<quoted text>I realize that 28% is a very big number to you, but to the rest of us, that is 72% didn't take the bait, baaaaaaa

hahaha, you don't like polls when they aren't what your preaching huh little sheeple/goat shill. Spin the results anyway like Rove swearing Romney won, it won't change anything. He still has a high approval rating due to the MAJORITY not the minor annoyers you represent. I love it. You probably had to double up on your meds and hit the bed with all that spinning in your head.

Have some scary nightmares little lemmings that all disappeared. I will check back in a day or so and get some more laughs from your sad attempts of distracting the issues and spinning the truth like you silly teabagging lemmings do.

Maybe you better cut back from your meds abit. What is all that crap..all your favorite slander sites you troll or started. Where's that link to the welfare mom on O'Reilly you were suppose to show. I think you need to pay attention to what you read little dweeb. How many of there are you...socks?

Single black mother gets $80 K in welfare benefits, see story on O'Reilly tonight

Now prove that is a true story....just one link, it can be from O'Reilly/faux news. Show us. You made the allegation and I showed you there was no reference to that in THREE search engines except to refer to this topix thread and your statement. Come on.....waiting four hours for you to prove it. Can't, can you.

I wrote:|#82053 4 hrs agoYou are a real nutjob dweeb, you can put that line of crap in a search engine and it brings you right back to this page. Hailing out of Glasgo are you? You are a desparate shill lemming. But funny.

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nothing more...just this topix glasgow ky thread...too funny huh?

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On those three just that one topix thread..hmmmm (making crap up aren't you!)

You repukes remind me of a pile of dog crap. Especially you dweeb and the baaaaaa sheep/goat sock of yours.

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